Improvement in cultivators and seeders combined



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teens Patent No.1oa4sadatea November 22,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS AND lSEEDERS COMBINED.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, JONATHAN Lewis, of the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain Improvements in Gultivators, of which the following is a specication,

My invention consists in .an additional improvenient na cultivator patented on July 12th, 1870, .and my cultivator may thereby, at pleasure, be transformed into a plantel' without losing its advantages specified in the aforesaid patent.

'lhe improved construction of the seed-distributing apparatus, by which its operation is facilitated, forms the second part of my invention.

. In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a plan viewof my cnltivator.

Figure 2 is anV elevation of the'same. t

Figure 3 is a detachedv view of the feeding-cylinder.

Figure 4 is a vertical section of the distrilmting-apparatus.

A A represent the two wheels.

B B, the axles.

O C are longitudinal bars ofthe frame.

1) represents the cross-pieces of the frame.

E E represent iron hars by which the cross-pieces D are held together.

11 represents the tongue fastened to the front bar E and the axle-treeB.

G represents the plow-beams.

H represents an iron bar fastened to the frame.

`I represents an iron rod fastened to H, to which the forward ends of the plow-beams are hitched.

1L represents a number -of steady-pins fastened to the har H, which'keep the ends of the plow-beams iu place.

K represents the plo\ vlegs, to which the plowsharcs k are attached.

Y rlhey may be swung on a pin, g, and -are kept steady by a segmental rod, khand they drag with. them a pressure-roller, L, in a frame, v7.7"'.

The standard or steady-beam Gis fastened to the rear end of the .plow-beam- G.

J'Lhe frame k2 is pivoted `to the plow-leg K'hy the same bolt, k3, which serves to fasten the segmental rod kl to it. Y

N lrepresents hand-levers, byv which theoperatormay lift or lower the plow-beams, which are connected to them by rods M and staple an.

The plow-leg, K is hinged to the plow-beam G with a bolt, g, and to its'bac-lr ias-fastened the.seed. tube g1 into which enters the end lof a suspended funnel, g, attached to the` bar C by' a Vcouple of stra-ps, y".

O represent-s the hopper or seed -jbox with two inclined sides, o o, and the bottoms, o o', between which the dropping-cylinder P, with its seed-notches 111 p1, is fitted so a's to revolve freely between the bottom boards o o without allowing the seeds to wedge between them.

This dropping-cylinder is revolved by a gear, c, fastened tothe hub of the wheel A, which drives another gear-wheel, P', fastened to a square shaft, 1).

The shaft p has round journals, p2, of greater length than the bearings and. its square part is fitted loosely into the dropping-cylinder P.

The ends p3 opposite the wheels l" are reduced in dia-meter and passed through a lever, Q, on the other sido of which. is a nut, q, screwed on and kept from turning by a pin passed through nut and shaft.

'lhe lever Q, may have its fulcrum at q, or any other suitahleplace; and it terminates near the seat' of the driver within easy reach.

The seed-box is fastened to the slats o c c2, and they are attached to the frame, so that, by unfastening thel slats c cl c2, the seeds-box may be removed from the frame with the stirrer 1t' and its wheel R, the droppingcylinder remaining ou the frame', to which its journals are fastened.

The dropping-cylinder.1) is one-sided,i e., the notch pdrops the seedonly into one of the two funnels O', which are fastened Ibeneath each seed-box, while the other is not supplied.

This is for the purpose of planting two rows, and, byinaking different selections of two of these funnels, (one of each couple,) the width of the rows may be changed to three different distances.

The two rplow-beams G must he moved to the receiving-fnnnels.

The cylinders I are so fitted thatthey may be easily reversed to supply 'either' the right 'or the left funnel O1.

For this purpose the vcovers@2 of the bearings and the journal-boxes are removed, and the nuts q taken oil and theshaft p taken out.

For different. purposes in seeding, there may be a whole set of dropping-'cylinders with more or less notches, and notches of different sizes, but all on 'one side of each cylinder, -because only oneof each pair of funnels O1 is to be supplied at the time.

If, "at any-time, thc supply of seed should have to be stopped, the Operator, by moving the lever Q toward the seat S, does pull the shaft p and the wheel P in the position indicated by dotted lines in iig. 3 and Iig. 1.

The connection ot' the gear-wheels a andP is thus discontinued, and the seed is not distributed any more.

e To start 'the 'seeding-apparatus, the described operation isfto be reversed, and, if the teeth of the wheels a and 1" should not readily gear into each otherfthe wheel P is mede to hear againstA the wheel a while I), the steady-pins h, as fastened tothe bar H of the revolvinguntil the teeth of Jche one wheel can slip plow-beam, and the adjusting-rod K', when operating into-the spaces of another. As J:he Wheels do not reas herein described and for the purposes set forth.

rol've fest, and as the power is'rery small and the JONATHAN LEWIS. gearing very loose, there s no danger of breakage. I

W'het I claim as my invention, anddesre to se- Witnesses: v eure by Letters Patent, is HENRY N. MYGATT,

The errzm gement of the reversible dropping-cylinder H. MCOORMICK. 

